ArticleAtherosclerosis2013
Job insecurity and incident coronary heart disease: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Work Exposures and Development of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Systematic Review.Annals of work exposures and health · 2022Pooled it
- Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2013Pooled it
- Financial strain and ideal cardiovascular health in middle-aged and older women: Data from the Women's health study.American heart journal · 2019Trial
- Association between job insecurity and cardiovascular diseases in workers with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- Stress and Acute Coronary Syndrome.Cardiology research · 2025Review
- Influence of Personality Traits and Organizational Justice on Job Satisfaction among Nurses.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The sex-dependent response to psychosocial stress and ischaemic heart disease.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
- Social, Economic, Technological, and Environmental Factors Affecting Cardiovascular Diseases: A Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis.International journal of preventive medicine · 2022Review
- Structural Equation Modeling of a Global Stress Index in Healthy Soldiers.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Precarious Employment and Stress: The Biomedical Embodiment of Social Factors. PRESSED Project Study Protocol.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Pathophysiology-based subphenotyping of individuals at elevated risk for type 2 diabetes.Nature medicine · 2021Article
- Combined effect of emotional labor and job insecurity on sleep disturbance among customer service workers.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2020Article
- Job Insecurity: A Comparative Analysis between Migrant and Native Workers in Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Employment conditions and use of gastric cancer screening services in Korea: a nationwide survey.BMC public health · 2019Article
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- The Role of Labor Unions in Creating Working Conditions That Promote Public Health.American journal of public health · 2016Article
- Impact of Job Status on Accessibility of Cancer Screening.Cancer research and treatment · 2016Article
- Acute Stress Decreases but Chronic Stress Increases Myocardial Sensitivity to Ischemic Injury in Rodents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2016Review
- Social inequality in morbidity, framed within the current economic crisis in Spain.International journal for equity in health · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study uses a prospective design to examine the association between self-reported job insecurity and incident coronary heart disease; an association which has been little investigated previously.
methodsParticipants were 4174 British civil servants (1236 women and 2938 men), aged 42 to 56 with self-reported data on job insecurity and free from coronary heart disease at baseline (1995-6). These participants were followed until 2002-4, an average of 8.6 years, for incident fatal coronary heart disease, clinically verified incident non-fatal myocardial infarction, or definite angina (a total of 168 events).
resultsCox proportional hazard models adjusted for socio-demographic characteristics showed job insecurity to be associated with a 1.42-fold (95% CI, 1.05-1.93) risk of incident coronary heart disease compared with secure employment. Adjustment for physiological and behavioral cardiovascular risk factors had little effect on this estimate; 1.38 (1.01-1.88).
conclusionThis study suggests that job insecurity may adversely affect coronary health.
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